Do you know when we will hear if we are in or not? (Or is the fact that I've not heard mean I'm not in?) Paul (Long Time Lurker)
On 19/04/07, James Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 19 Apr 2007, at 14:39, Scot McSweeney-Roberts wrote: > James Cox wrote: > >> >> >> I hope that if this gets past the various layers of governance and >> gets budget to become a 'real' project, some effort into hooking >> up into bittorrent (I'm sure Bram could come up with some trickery >> to have certified users (ie, license fee payers ;)) only which >> would permit some kind of higher bandwidth product. > > > I've never really felt comfortable with distributed P2P for content > that I've paid for. It's great when bittorrent is used for > transfering ubuntu iso's around (as it's members of a community > helping others in the same community), it's less great but at least > makes some sense when it's used for piracy (as it's still a members > of a community helping other members in a community, all be it an > illicit one) but when it comes to content that I'm paying somebody > to send to me, I don't see why I should waste my upload bandwith > for someone else's business model. Even with content from the BBC, > I pay the licence fee so why should I pay in bandwidth as well? > Fair enough, but i love the fact I can grab an ISO or ... er... certain content very rapidly using the P2P model. Since I pay a flat rate anyhow, and i've got loads of upload bandwidth to use, I'm not that fussed. :) - james - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
